Pros And Cons Of The Criminal Justice System
The Criminal Justice System Is Biased
To begin with, in today’s society, the Criminal Justice system is broken. A person’s trial can have a different outcome depending on their ethnicity. Statistics prove that all races are not treated equally, whites always have an advantage for being the dominant group in the U.S. At this period in time, there has been a lot of shootings involving African Americans the most. In various incidents, law enforcement officers state that they felt that their life was in danger when the suspects were not armed. First, according to the 2010 U.S Census, Blacks and Hispanics had higher rates of incarceration compared to the whites. For example, it’s quite interesting to see that if a white or black individual commit
the same crime, the black individual gets a more severe punishment. Not only has society become more aware of this problem, but also the current President, Barack Obama. During a presidential speech, President Obama stated that too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement. In addition to that, in The Encyclopedia of Human Rights in the U.S, it sates “Racial discrimination in law enforcement and judicial system is very distinct. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, by the end of 2008, 3,161 men and 149 women per 100,000 persons in the U.S. black population were under imprisonment” (Conde 1). Also, Conde explains that “In major U.S. cities, there are more than one million people who were stopped and questioned by police in streets, nearly 90 percent of them were minority males. Among those questioned, 50 percent were African-Americans and 30 percent were Hispanics (1). Those statistics are quite surprisingly, and they keep rising throughout the years. Secondly, police brutality is more common with the blacks than with any other race.
To begin with, in today’s society, the Criminal Justice system is broken. A person’s trial can have a different outcome depending on their ethnicity. Statistics prove that all races are not treated equally, whites always have an advantage for being the dominant group in the U.S. At this period in time, there has been a lot of shootings involving African Americans the most. In various incidents, law enforcement officers state that they felt that their life was in danger when the suspects were not armed. First, according to the 2010 U.S Census, Blacks and Hispanics had higher rates of incarceration compared to the whites. For example, it’s quite interesting to see that if a white or black individual commit
the same crime, the black individual gets a more severe punishment. Not only has society become more aware of this problem, but also the current President, Barack Obama. During a presidential speech, President Obama stated that too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement. In addition to that, in The Encyclopedia of Human Rights in the U.S, it sates “Racial discrimination in law enforcement and judicial system is very distinct. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, by the end of 2008, 3,161 men and 149 women per 100,000 persons in the U.S. black population were under imprisonment” (Conde 1). Also, Conde explains that “In major U.S. cities, there are more than one million people who were stopped and questioned by police in streets, nearly 90 percent of them were minority males. Among those questioned, 50 percent were African-Americans and 30 percent were Hispanics (1). Those statistics are quite surprisingly, and they keep rising throughout the years. Secondly, police brutality is more common with the blacks than with any other race.